Media Highlights

04 April 2017IF President Jacob Zuma had any decency he would resign, human rights activist Kumi Naidoo said. Naidoo, who was given an honorary doctorate in social science by the University of KwaZuluNatal yesterday, used his acceptance speech to urge South

04 April 2017GLOBALLY renowned musician Hugh Masekela broke into song after he received an honorary doctorate at the University of KwaZuluNatal yesterday. Addressing students at the ceremony, Masekela, whose antiapartheid anthem, Bring home Nelson Mandela

04 April 2017The music, storyline and character portrayal reflect themes we are accustomed to today: crime, sex, murder, alcohol and celebrity, to reflect the human condition as perceived in the twenties and today.” Chicago centres on vaudevillian

04 April 2017NINA Mkhize will perform at the Centre for Jazz and Popular Music on April 19. Mkhize is a jazztrained vocalist and.composer and twotime winner of the Old Mutual Jazz Encounters Awards from Durban, KwaZulu Natal. Her repertoire includes original

04 April 2017“I AM HUMBLED and honoured to share this day with you,” world renowned jazz trumpeter Hugh Masekela, said when he was conferred with an honorary doctorate of music degree at the University of KwaZuluNatal, Westville campus yesterday

04 April 2017ALL EYES ON HUGH Legendary trumpeter Hugh Masekela reacts during a ceremony where he was honoured with the degree of Doctor of Music (honoris causa) at the UKZN Westville campus yesterday. Environmental and social activist Kumi Naidoo was honoured

04 April 2017JAM extremely humbled and very deeply honoured to share this joyous occasion with all present. My focus on this day is directed at that: as you open a new door to the rest of your lives, I request you to consider a number of issues that pertain to

16 Mar 2016Join the Daily News with a book collection at this year’s 19th Time of the Writer Festival taking place this week at different locations across Durban, including venues like Clermont, Cato Manor, uMlazi

06 Mar 2016NOVELS written in indigenous languages would strengthen a reading culture among Africa’s young people who, when they did read, were picking up self-help books, American crime novels an d the occasional newspaper

09-Aug-2015OVER the years, and especially during Women’s Month in South Africa, I have often been asked by interviewers “If you had the opportunity to host two or three woman ‘icons’ over a Women’s Day lunch at your home, who would they be, and what would the conversation revolve around?”

12-May-2015Relations between South Africa and Nigeria have always had some turbulence. In the latest tense episode, Nigeria withdrew its ambassador, Uche Ajulu-Okeke, and its high commissioner, Martin Cobham, after a series of xenophobic attacks in South Africa in April.

UnknownSenior lecturer in Anthropology in the School of Social Sciences at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Dr Maheshvari Naidu, has managed to meld her passions with her career so successfully that she is acknowledged to be among the top 30 researchers at UKZN and has garnered many an award, among which is the Department of Science and Technology Award for Outstanding Women in Science (2013)

03-Jun-2014BULLYING at schools is commonplace. Each time I read in the media of another pupil being bullied, or hear anecdotally that a pupil has dropped out of school or changed schools, I wonder why the particular girl or boy has been targeted.

03-Jun-2014BULLYING at schools is commonplace. Each time I read in the media of another pupil being bullied, or hear anecdotally that a pupil has dropped out of school or changed schools, I wonder why the particular girl or boy has been targeted.

19-Mar-2014THULI Madonsela’s report on the Nkandla scandal is turning into a constitutional crisis. As Trevor Manuel has argued, the ANC’s stri­dent criticism of Madonsela is turn­ing into an attack on our democratic architecture.

19-Mar-2014WARRANT Officer Barend van Staden, who was the crime scene photographer at Oscar Pistorius’s home the night Reeva Steenkamp was killed, was grilled by defense advocate Barry Roux for the second day yesterday.

18-Mar-2014TWELVE years ago, former police photographer and crime scene expert Rinus Viljoen attended his last scene – an accident. A father had driven over his 2-year-old son. It was 2002 and Viljoen ‘s own son had been born that year.

18-Mar-2014TWELVE years ago, former police photographer and crime scene expert Rinus Viljoen attended his last scene, an accident. A father had driven over his 2-year-old son. It was 2002 and Viljoen’s own son had been born that year.

11-Mar-2014SOME of the best jazz musicians in KwaZulu­-Natal will be performing in a special jazz con­ cert hosted by the non-profit arts organisation Abound in Al of the New Arts Block at the University of KwaZulu-Natal Pietermaritzburg campus on Friday.

Dec-2013What’s your fear? Muggers, rapists, sickness, perpetual singledom or simply speaking up in public? Or is it the insidious, formless sort that sits in the pit of your stomach, disturbing your sleep?

20-Dec-2013Most adult South Africans will be familiar with the experience of receiving an invitation on Sunday morning to a braai that day, only to realize that one has no beers to take, or they may have invited friends to Sunday lunch, only to remember they are out of wine

20-Dec-2013Of the eleven official languages recognized in the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa (1996), nine are African (we shall not en
ter into the debate as to whether Afrikaans is an African language or not, save to communicate our view that it has the same constitutional status as the other languages)